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1 PUBLIKASIES: 1969 : 1. De Waal, D.J. : An asymptotic distribution for the determinant of a noncentral Beta statistic in multivariate analysis.south African Statistical Journal. 2, De Waal, D.J. : On the noncentral distribution of the largest canonical correlation coefficient. South African Statistical Journal. 3, De Waal, D.J. : The noncentral Beta type 2 distribution. South African Statistical Journal : 4. De Waal, D.J. : Distributions connected with a multivariate Beta statistic.ann. Math. Statist. 41, : 5. De Waal, D.J. : On the expected values of the elementary symmetric functions of a Wishart matrix. Ann. Math. Statist. 43, De Waal, D.J. : An asymptotic distribution on non-central multivariate Dirichlet variates. South African Statistical Journal. 7, : 7. De Waal, D.J. and Nel, D.G. : On some expections with respect to Wishart matrices. South African Statistical Journal. 7, De Waal, D.J. : On the ESF'S of the Wishart and correlation matrices. South African Statistical Journal. 7, Crowther, N.A.S. and de Waal, D.J. : On the distribution of a generalized positive semi definite quadratic form of normal variates. South African Statistical Journal. 7, : 10. De Waal, D.J. : Bayes estimate of the non-centrality parameter in multivariate analysis. Comm. in Statistics, 3(1), : 11. De Waal, D.J. : Bayesian inferences on the non centrality parameter of Hotellings T 2 statistic. South African Statistical Journal. 8, : 12. De Waal, D.J. : A review of tests of various hyptheses in multivariate statistical analysis. South African Statistical Journal. 10,

2 1977 : 13. De Waal, D.J. : Limiting distributions of the elementary symmetric functions of some random matrices. South African Statistical Journal. 11, De Waal, D.J. : Asymptotic distributions for the ESF'S of two matrices under the assumption of linearity. J. Multivariate Analysis, 7, : 15. De Waal, D.J. : The expected values of the elementary symmetric functions of some matrices. South African Statistical Journal. 12, Van der Merwe, A.J. and de Waal, D.J. : The asymptotic expansions of the Stein estimators for the vector case. Ann. Inst. Statistical Math. 30, A, : 17. Groenewald, P.C.N. and de Waal, D.J. : An asymptotic distribution for the coefficient in a multiple time series. South African Statistical Journal. 13, De Waal, D.J. : On the normalizing constant for the Bingham Von Mises Fisher matrix distribution. South African Statistical Journal. 13, Nagel, P.J.A. and de Waal, D.J. : Bayesian classification, estimation and prediction of growth curves. South African Statistical Journal. 13, : 20. De Waal, D.J.; van der Merwe, A.J.; Groenewald, P.C.N.; Nel, D.G. and Lombard, C.J. : Model selection, prediction and estimation for multivariate normal populations. South African Statistical Journal. 15, : 21. De Waal, D.J.; van der Merwe, A.J.; Groenewald, P.C.N. : Prediction in multivariate regression analysis. South African Statistical Journal. 16, De Waal, D.J. : Appendix in : Temporal fluctuations in the numbers of female mosquitoes trapped at a site in the Western Orange Free State. J. Ent. Soc. South Africa, 45, Rautenbach, H.F.P.; Els, D.L. and de Waal, D.J. : 'n Trosanalise as meervoudige vergelykings prosedure vir pare kontraste 'n Empiriese evaluasie en vergelyking met twee bekende prosedures. Agroplantae, 14, : 24. Van der Merwe, A.J.; Groenewald, P.C.N.; de Waal, D.J. and van der Merwe, C.A. : Model selection for future data in the case of multivariate regression analysis. South African Statistical Journal. 17,

3 25. De Waal, D.J. : Quadratic forms and manifold normal distributions. Contributions to statistics. Ed. P.K. Senl. pp (North Holland). 26. De Waal, D.J. : 'n Oorsig oor statistiese Bayesbeslissings teorie in die geval van meer as een individu. S.A. Tydskrif vir Natuurwetenskap en Tegnologie 2, (Uitnodigings artikel) 1984 : 27. De Waal, D.J.; Garisch, I. and Groenewald, P.C.N. : A super Bayesians' solution to a multi Bayesian decision problem. South African Statistical Journal. 18, Nel, D.G.; de Waal, D.J. and Marx, D.G. : A predictive approach to the detection of additional information in a multivariate regression model. Communications in Statistics (Theory and Meth.) 13, : 29. De Waal, D.J. : Matrix valued distributions. Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences Vol. 5. Ed. Kotz and Johnson, p Van Zyl, J.M. and de Waal, D.J. : The multi Bayesian sequential decision procedure. South African Statistical Journal. 19, De Waal, D.J. and Maritz, J.S. : An empirical Bayes approach in estimating the parameters of two or more geometric distributions. Comm. in Statistics (Theory and Meth.) 14, De Waal, D.J.; Groenewald, P.C.N.; Van Zyl, J.M. and Zidek, J.V. : A Randomized solution for multi Bayes estimates of the multinormal mean. Int. Statist. Math. 37, : 33. De Waal, D.J.; Groenewald, P.C.N.; Van Zyl, J.M. and Zidek, J.V. : Multi Bayesian estimation theory. Statistics and Decisions, 4, : 34. De Waal, D.J. : Test of hypothesis in a multivariate hypergeometric case using a Bayesian approach. South African Statistical Journal. 27, : 35. De Waal, D.J. : On Bayes estimation and hypothesis testing. S.A. Journal for Science and Technology, 7, (Guest speaker at the S.A. Academy in Afrikaans). 36. De Waal, D.J. and Groenewald, P.C.N. : Bayesian tests for hypothesis of the equality of multinomial Probabilities. South African Statistical Journal. 22, De Waal, D.J. and Nel, D.G. : A procedure to select a ML II prior in a multivariate normal case. Comm. Statist. Simula., 17(3),

4 1989 : 38. De Waal, D.J. and Groenewald, P.C.N. : Bayesian tests for some precise hypotheses on multi normal means. Austrl. J. Statist., 31, No De Waal, D.J. and Groenewald, P.C.N. : A Discussion on measuring the amount of information from the data in a Bayesian analysis. South African Statistical Journal. 23, 1, De Waal, D.J. and Groenewald, P.C.N. : A Bayesian analysis of the bio availability of four brands of medicine. Australian J. of Statistics : 41. Garisch, I.; de Waal, D.J. and Groenewald, P.C.N. : The use of utilities and experts in decision making. Commun. in Statistics (Theory and Meth.), 20, No.1, Van Tonder, G.J.; Botha, J.F. and de Waal, D.J. : Bayesian estimation of waterlevels. Model Care 90 : Calibration and Reliability in Groundwater modelling. Proceedings of Conference, The Hague, IAHS. Publ. 195, : 43. Garisch, I.; de Waal, D.J. and Groenewald, P.C.N. : The use of utilities and experts in decision making. Commun. in Statistics (Theory and Meth.), 20, No.1, : 44. Steyn, P.W. and de Waal, D.J. : Occupancy distributions for testing marginal homogeinity. Commun. in Statistics (Theory Meth.), 22(5), : 45. Makhuvha, V.T.; Groenewald, P.C.N. and de Waal, D.J. : Posterior probabilities for some regression hypotheses. South African Statistical Journal., 28, No.2, p : 46. De Waal, D.J. Groenewald, P.C.N. and C.J. Kemp : Perturbation of the normal model in linear regression. South African Statistical Journal, 29, De Waal, D.J. and Groenewald, P.C.N. : Bayesian estimation of ground water levels. South African Statistical Journal., 29, p De Waal, D.J. and Kemp, C.J. : A Bayesian model for estimating the failure rate for different groups. South African Statistical Journal, 29,

5 1996 : 49. De Waal D.J. : Goodness of fit of the Generalized Extreme Value distribution based on the Kullback Leibler information. South African Statistical Journal, 30, Makhuvha, V.T., Groenewald, P.C.N. and de Waal, D.J. : Bayesian tests for the balanced two way analysis of variance model. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 53, : 51. De Waal, D.J. : Number of tea bags left in the box. The Mathematical Scientist, 22 No.1, : 52. De Waal, D.J. : Posterior distribution of measures of association between predictors of horse racing results. South African Statistical Journal, 32, De Waal, D.J., Worku, Z.B. and Groenewald, P.C.N. Effect of the duration of breastfeeding on the lifetime of children in Lesotho. South African Statistical Journal, 32, De Waal, D.J. : Discussion on "Bayesian Methods in the Atmospheric Sciences" by Berliner, L.M. Royle, A., Wilke, C.K. and Milliff, R.F. In Bayesian Statistics 6. J.M. Bernardo, J.O. Berger, A.P. Dawid and A.F.M. Smith (Eds.) Oxford University Press : 55. Beirlant, J., de Waal, D.J. Teugels, J.L. A Multivariate Generalized Burr Gamma Distribution. South African Statistical Journal, Vol.34, nr : 56. De Waal, D.J., Beirlant, J. Bayesian Methods with applications to science, policy and official statistics, selected papers from ISBA 2000 : Monographs of Official Statistics George, I.E. (ed). Eurostat, : 57. Beirlant J., de Waal D.J., Teugels J.L. The generalized Burr gamma family of distributions with applications in extreme value analysis. Proceedings of the 4 th Conference on Limit Theorems in Probability and Statistics of the J. Bolyai Soc. Vol. 1,

6 2003: 58. De Waal, D.J., Van Gelder P.H.A.J.M. and Beirlant, J.: Joint modelling of daily maximum wind strengths. Paper under review for J. Wind Engineering. 59. De Waal, D.J.: Bayesian Methodology in Extreme Value Statistics. Chapter in book by Beirlant and Teugels on Extreme Values, Wiley (too appear in 2003). 2004: 60. De Waal, D.J., Van Gelder P.H.A.J.M. and Beirlant, J. (2004): Joint modelling of daily maximum wind strengths through the multivariate Burr-Gamma distribution. J. Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics 92, : 61. De Waal, D.J. Van Gelder, P.H.A.J.M. (2006): Modelling of extreme wave heights and periods through copulas. Extremes, Vol. 9, : 62. De Waal, D.J., Van Gelder, P.H.A.J.M. and A Nel (2007): Estimating joint tail probabilities on Rhine discharges through the logistic copula. Environmetrics 18: : 63. De Waal, D.J., Beirlant, J. and Dierckx, G. (2008): Predicting high quantiles through the Dirichlet Process on Extreme modeling. Accepted to SA Statist. J. 64. Dierckx G; Beirlant J and de Waal DJ (2008) : A new estimation method for Weibull-type tails based on the mean excess function. Accepted for publication in Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference.

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